Upper Jaw Glacier
| Upper Jaw Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 21 ′ S , 162 ° 57 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Renegar glacier | |
The Upper Jaw Glacier (English for Oberkiefergletscher ) is a glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range , it represents the northern branch of a glacier on the east side of a mountain ridge that extends north from Mount Shark Fin . It flows in an easterly direction and flows together with the Lower Jaw Glacier into the Renegar Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board made the descriptive naming in 1994. Together with the Lower Jaw Glacier and the Shark Fin, it is reminiscent of the open mouth of a shark .
Web links
- Upper Jaw Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Upper Jaw Glacier on geographic.org (English)